Special Collections

Special Collections - 6th Floor Glickman Library

Chapbook from the Albert A. Howard Book History Collection. Learn more about our Book Collections. »

The Wonder of Wonders, or The Remarkable Discovery of an American Hermit; Who Li

A graduate student processing a collection. Learn more about our Manuscript Collections. »

student processing manuscript collection

Gorham Normal School, now Corthell Hall. Learn more about the Archives and USM history. »

Howard Solomon teaching a class using an exhibition on Charlie Howard. Learn more about the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine Collections. »

Howard Solomon teaching a class using the Charlie Howard exhibition.

Photograph of a 1967 NAACP march in Portland from the Talbot Collection. Courtesy of the Portland Press Herald. Learn more about the African American Collection of Maine. »

Photo of a NAACP march in Portland, March 1967 from the Talbot Collection. Court

The Casco Bay Tummlers. Photo by Colin Malakie. Learn more about the Judaica Collection. »

Gay Monopoly, The Parker Sisters, 1983. From the Northern Lambda Nord Archives. Learn more about the LGBT Collection. »

Learn more about how classes are using Special Collections. »

A class working with materials in Special Collections.

View online exhibition of books from the Reformation from the Albert A. Howard Book History Collection »

The reading room will be closed Thursday, June 27th.

Special Collections, part of the University Libraries, collects and preserves rare materials, including books, manuscripts, photographs, and artifacts. The Department is made up of three meta-collections: General Rare Books and Manuscripts, the University Archives, and the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine. Special Collections supports the academic mission of the University by inviting classes to use its collections in hands-on exercises where students learn research skills.

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Kim Kuzma Benefit Concert for the Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine

August 22, 2013

7:00 PM

One Longfellow Square, 181 State Street, Portland

2013 Sampson Center Catalyst Award Dinner

October 17, 2013

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Italian Heritage Center, 40 Westland Avenue, Portland

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